

Version 6.0 is a part of the GNU project and was expected to be released in 2008.

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Its author, Christian Mauduit, has announced that a complete rewrite is in progress to produce version 6.0, which will abandon the Allegro used for 5.x releases for a full OpenGL implementation.
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As of July 2008, the current stable version is 5.6.4 and is available under MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD. Network support was introduced in version 5.4.0, released on 7 July 2001. It was a complete rewrite and used the Allegro library. Version 5.0 was released on 26 September 1998. It was a "barely usable" MS-DOS game with no network support. Liquid War 3.0 was released on 1 July 1995. Colcombet's friend, Christian Mauduit, enhanced the algorithm and coded the game. The game came as a result of the algorithm, when he realized its applicability to gaming. The Liquid War shortest path algorithm was invented by Thomas Colcombet before the game itself in Spring 1995. The computer AI's "strategy" is to constantly choose a random point in the enemy and move its cursor to it. A single player mode is available in which the opponents are controlled by the computer. Liquid War is a multiplayer game and can be played by up to 6 people on one computer, or over the Internet or a LAN. These obstacles may affect the strategies of the game. There are multiple maps which affect the obstacles in the battlefield. When the time runs out, the player with the most particles wins. The game ends when one player controls all of the particles or when the time runs out. Since a particle can only fight in one direction at a time (towards its team's cursor), a player that surrounds its opponents will have a distinct advantage. As particles cannot die but only change teams, the total number of particles on the map remains constant. When a particle moves into a particle from a different team, it will fight and if the opponent particle fails to fight back (it is not moving in the opposite direction) it will eventually be assimilated by its attacker. A player may have several thousands particles at a time, giving the collection of particles a look of a liquid blob. Each particle follows the shortest path around the obstacles to its team's cursor. The players can only move their cursors and cannot directly control the particles. The objective of the game is to assimilate all enemy particles. Each player (2 to 6, computer or human) has an army of particles and a cursor. Gameplay takes place on a 2D battlefield, usually with some obstacles. On the right is an information bar showing the relative size of the armies and a clock showing the time until the game expires. Contact:, done in 0.003 seconds.Liquid War in play with six teams. Duel: The Mage Wars), Liberation Day, Krush, Kill & Destroy: Krossfire, Lord of the Rings, The: War of the Ring Wars, MechCommander Gold, Magic & Mayhem (a.k.a. Lord of the Rings, The: Battle for Middle-Earth, Kohan: Ahriman's Gift, L.E.D. People who downloaded Liquid War have also downloaded: Overall, Liquid War is a fun, stimulating, and truly original abstract wargame that you'll enjoy playing for hours on end, especially against friends. The game is fully configurable, and you can use your own maps to play. Up to 6 people can play on a single machine, and the game supports Internet play. The maps are all very creative, each requiring a different strategy to succeed. Because the primary goal of liquid fighters is to reach the point you want them to reach via the shortest route, it's important for you to plot an "optimal path" through the mostly maze-like map to minimize losses. Fighters all act independently, so it is possible for one particular fighter to behave differently than its peers. When fighters of different armies meet, they eat each other based on basic rules similar to the Japanese board game of Go. There are no weapons of any kind: the only thing you have to do is to move a cursor in a 2D battlefield to direct the movement of your liquid army. The rules are easy to learn, but hard to master: you have to control an army of liquid (each "fighter" is a small square that looks like 1x1 pixel), and your goal is to try and eat your opponent (liquid of another color). The game's real-time nature and complete lack of conventional units may make it look more like a psychedelic action game than a wargame, but it won't take long for anyone to see that strategy is more important to success in the game than mere reflexes. Liquid War is a very unique and addictive wargame designed for multiplayer.
